Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-06-19

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cage business Of all kinds has been very
AT LOUISVILLE
the staple product Of that city are in active
demand and building material is doing
well. In St Louis all staples and lines of
goods ane moving along rs it always does
in sight Of q big harvest. In Kansas City
the grain market has been the dullest for
the season, but in building material it is
very active. In St Paul there is an in
creased movement in all lines, traders and
manufacturers are generally out Of debt. In
Minneapolis railroad construction has de-
velOped a good deal Of new territory and
business is good. In Denver, Col, all
seasonable goods are selling well.
The general crops are favorable. All of
the leading railroad lines are earning good
dividends and construction is now begin
ming to assume its large midsummer pro-
portions. Construction from this put will
likely run from 40 to so miles q day.
The coffee spectators have come to grief.
The sugar spectators would like TO try it
but are afraid. The dry goods manutae-
lures particularly in all lines into which
cotton enters are very busy. The manu-
lecturers Of wooden and wOrsted are going
slowly until the seasons demand shows
itself. The buyers of carpets are now on
the market and will continue their next
six months buying within the next thirty
days. In upholstery goods the prospects
are that the mills will book as much bust
ness during the next three weeks as they
can turn out between now and January.
THE PRODUCTION OF ANTHRACITE
bitumiOus coal is being pushed to nearly
its full capacity of the mines. In anthra-
cite we are ahead of last year 1,226, 479
tons. In bitumOus there is an extraOrdi-
nary demand throughout the East. On
both plans prices Mll be advanced 10 cents
per ton to take effect July 1st.
Organized labor will in a short time be
divided up into national organizations
each of which will attend TO its al
fairs. This will 90 to strengthen rather
than weaken the labor movement and will
enable each trade to better look after its
own affairs than if a dozen crafts were
mixed together.
Five national labor unions held meet
ings last week, iron workers, miners,
printers, machinery constructors, and shoe
makers a dozen more national conventions
of labor will be held during the next two
or three weeks. They will representabOut
500 men.
New railroad centres are being built up
in the West and South. Four more rail
roads will soon pass through Atlanta, Ga.
Jay Gould is building a new railroad town
10 the West. Railroad shop labor is in
active demand. Wages are improving
through demands OfwOrkmen and through
necessities of employers.
A HOUSES ARE IN DEMAND
in oil parts of the country. Capitalists
besides building railroads are giving at
tention to schemes involving large house
building. Another favorable indication
is that a large amount of money is moving
from Eastern states to Western where the
rate of money is high. This movement is
having even q better effect upon the West
than the outflow of capital.
Hundreds of little industries are spring
ing up all over the West and South invit-
ing manufacturing capital and labor and
the friendly invitations are being accepted.
A great number of gas wells are being
bored in Ohio, Indiana, and some farther
Western states. The utilization of natural
gas will in a short time be ten fold what it
now is. Little industries will c~ongregate
as fast as they can in the natural gas
region.
THE UNITED LABOR PARTY
is gaining adherence rapidly throughout
the West. For years past labor has been a
giant without eyes, hands or feet so to
speak. To-day it has eyes which penetrate
into every city, town and village in the
country. IL has arms to strike down in
inStice and feet which carry it wherever its
intelligence directs. Never before in the
history of the world has labor had the OPP
pOrtunities now presented. Capitalists
now OtleStO build or rent to it houses,
shops or mills. Scores of employers are
offering cooperation or profit sharing.
The legislature of the various states nave
been passing more favorable avs for labor
whether willing or unwilling. The National
Congress has been dOdgeing behind the
marble pillars to avoid passing the neces-
Sary national legislation. The wages of
labor has been advancing taking them all
in all, but there is still urgent need of inn
provement. The public press and the
public opinion are far more on the side of
labor o than a few years ago.
Yet there are mOnOpOlies and deeply i'm
beded injustice to overcome and organized
labor seems TO be the only power that has
the courage, intellegencea and the patriotism
to do the wOSk. The combination of
capital is less threatening than q few years
ago and labor has less to fear and more to
hope from it than ever.
The employers of labor throughout the
country intend to make q strong and de-
termined fight against the dictatiOn as to
whom they shall employ.
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
are being invested in cotton mills in the
/ south and five millions more in cotton seed
oils.
A great many of the Chinese on the
Pacific Coast are coming East and are find
ing employment without entering the es-
tablished crafts.
There are 100 cotton mills in the South.
Several new silk mills are projected in
Pennsylvania.
The iron and steel workers will demand
a ten per cent advance. The lumber men
in the Northwest are discussing an advance
in wages. The cooperative establishments
of Minneapolis are all making money. The
miners throughout the West expect a busy
seasons work. The labor papers who adj
vised the coke workers To accept less than
their labor was worth will come in for
their share of condemnation for selling
themselves out to employing interests for
the sake of advertising and their good
opiniOn. Western Pennsylvania is in need
of an honest labor paper and an honest
labor editor.